Profound is a freemium AI search marketing platform built for teams that need programmatic visibility into how large language models (LLMs) and AI answer engines surface, cite, and represent their brand. The platform spans monitoring and optimization across major AI platforms — including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Anthropic Claude, and Exa Search — giving marketing and engineering teams a unified data layer for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).

Key platform capabilities include:

AI Marketer agent — autonomous marketing workflow execution
AEO monitoring — cross-platform brand visibility and citation tracking in AI-generated answers
Prompt volume analytics — quantifying AI search demand signals
Context Manager — grounding brand knowledge to influence how AI models represent the brand
FactCheck agent — detecting and combating AI-generated misinformation about the brand
ChatGPT Shopping visibility tracking — monitoring product presence in AI-driven commerce surfaces
Agent Analytics — attributing traffic and conversions sourced from AI agents

Profound integrates with CDN and cloud infrastructure providers (Akamai, AWS, Cloudflare, Fastly, Google Cloud Platform, Netlify, Vercel), CMS platforms (WordPress), analytics tools (Google Analytics), and communication tools (Slack). The free trial tier provides 50 prompts/day for 7 days across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Enterprise tier pricing is custom.